Heuristic-Based Firefly Algorithm for Bound Constrained Nonlinear Binary Optimization

Algorithm 4

HBFA with pBC.

Data:  , ,

Set  ;

Randomly generate , ;

Discretize position of firefly : , ;

Compute , rank fireflies (from lowest to largest );

while    and   do

  forall     such that   do

    forall    such that   do

     Compute randomization term;

     Compute attractiveness based on distance ;

     Compute using binary positions (see (7));

     Discretize and define using (16);

  Compute , rank fireflies (from lowest to largest  );

  Set  ;